Posts Tagged ‘ANT’

Ivy is a tool for managing build dependencies within the Ant build tool. In this article I share my experiences using Ivy and provide recommendations on what to do and not do. This article is not a tutorial on using Ivy: for that see the Ivy documentation. Before getting into the specifics of Ivy, the […]

The Apache Ant build tool is a great aid in automating builds and deployments. When the build fails, however, diagnosing the problem can be painful – especially if it only occurs intermittently. Logging details of the Ant build can therefore be useful. By default Ant writes informational messages to the console. While this is usually […]

I am a big proponent of automating the building and deployment of application code: this minimizes the chance of human error and ensures a consistent process is followed. Last year I wrote an article about automatically deploying code via FTP using the Java-based Apache Ant build tool. Since then I have needed to deploy to […]

I have added a new software utility called EnvGen to my Software page. EnvGen is an Ant task for generating different versions of the same file parameterized for different environments (i.e. development, test, and production). File generation is done using FreeMarker, a template engine with a full-featured templating language. You specify environment-specific properties in a […]

This article describes how to automate the transfer of files between servers via FTP using the Java-based ANT build tool. I have been using ANT to do automated FTP for a number of years now, and will share some of the lessons and limitations I have discovered. ANT provides a FTP task. It requires the […]